As I’ve mentioned before, Story Starters is a resource I am using with Princess of the Universe this year for 5th grade. I don’t use it every day, but I do pull from it regularly. Today was a good day to use it. We are studying Very Last First Time
this week and Story Starters happened to have a prompt about a man shipwrecked on an island in cold, Atlantic waters.

Here is what Michaela wrote:
Striving for food, he desperately wanted sandwiches, meat, and cheese. Struggling for warmth in the icy climate, he skinned some of the penguins for warmth. On the cold water, the sun was like a ship not sunk then sinks into darkness.
Waking up cold he burnt some of the wood from his ship to make a fire. Sitting for hours and his gun beside him, he took the powder out and burnt his gun too. He frowned, but gazing over a iceberg he grinned. A ship was in the water. It had food, water, and warmth. He went aboard, ate, and drank and got warm. And lived happily ever after.
We’ve got a few issues to work on in the way of grammar and sentence structure, but not bad for a 10-year-old. I am not sure about skinning the penguins, but they do look pretty big in the picture. I imagine you’d be in some legal trouble after you got rescued.
Lynn

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